America's Forgotten History, Part Four: Grotius Rises

America’s Forgotten History, #4

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Biography & Memoir, Historical, History, Americas
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Author: Mark David Ledbetter ISBN: 9781386147084
Publisher: Mark David Ledbetter Publication: January 24, 2019
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Mark David Ledbetter
ISBN: 9781386147084
Publisher: Mark David Ledbetter
Publication: January 24, 2019
Imprint:
Language: English

The chapters of America's story are marked by momentous events. In 1776, in some English colonies of America, proud inheritors of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 declared both their independence and intention to form a government based on Enlightenment principles. Despite inevitable missteps and contradictions, some major, those living the story mostly stayed true to the Classical Liberal project of minimalist government and individual rights until the end of the nineteenth century. After the Spanish-American War, though, with the acquisition of an explicit Pacific empire and the enthusiastic embrace of Progressivism, America embarked on a new experiment for the new century, one which valued activist government and equality. If the first experiment lasted one hundred and twenty years, the second experiment, too, is now a hundred and twenty years old, and tottering on the edge of a widening gyre as, perchance, we enter a third era.

If the gods are smiling on us, we will pull back from the edge to combine in the Third Era the best of the First and Second. If they are not, the forces of history might yet plunge our civilization into the inferno, as they have done to so many other great civilizations.
Grotius Rises is a history of the foundational first three decades of the Second Era of the American story. It takes us from the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt to that of Herbert Hoover; from the Spanish-American War to the Great Depression, three decades that saw Classical Liberalism fall as Progressivism rose to take its place.

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The chapters of America's story are marked by momentous events. In 1776, in some English colonies of America, proud inheritors of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 declared both their independence and intention to form a government based on Enlightenment principles. Despite inevitable missteps and contradictions, some major, those living the story mostly stayed true to the Classical Liberal project of minimalist government and individual rights until the end of the nineteenth century. After the Spanish-American War, though, with the acquisition of an explicit Pacific empire and the enthusiastic embrace of Progressivism, America embarked on a new experiment for the new century, one which valued activist government and equality. If the first experiment lasted one hundred and twenty years, the second experiment, too, is now a hundred and twenty years old, and tottering on the edge of a widening gyre as, perchance, we enter a third era.

If the gods are smiling on us, we will pull back from the edge to combine in the Third Era the best of the First and Second. If they are not, the forces of history might yet plunge our civilization into the inferno, as they have done to so many other great civilizations.
Grotius Rises is a history of the foundational first three decades of the Second Era of the American story. It takes us from the presidential administration of Theodore Roosevelt to that of Herbert Hoover; from the Spanish-American War to the Great Depression, three decades that saw Classical Liberalism fall as Progressivism rose to take its place.

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